High school student Wendy Christensen visits an amusement park in Pennsylvania with her boyfriend Jason Wise, her best friend Carrie Dreyer, Carrie's boyfriend Kevin Fischer, and their classmates to celebrate their graduation. A fourth film, The Final Destination, was released in August 2009. The film was a financial success and, with box office receipts of nearly $118 million, the highest-grossing installment in the franchise at the time.
Two death scenes involving tanning beds and a nail gun, respectively, as well as Winstead's performance attracted positive comments from reviewers. Some critics called the film formulaic and said it brought nothing new to the franchise, while others praised it for being enjoyable and fulfilling its audience's expectations. A special-edition DVD called "Thrill Ride Edition" includes a feature called "Choose Their Fate", which acts as an interactive film, allowing viewers to make decisions at specific points in the film that alter the course of the story.įinal Destination 3 received a mixed critical response. The DVD, released on July 25, 2006, includes commentaries, documentaries, a deleted scene and an animated video. The first two weeks of the three-month shoot were spent filming the roller coaster's derailment.įollowing its premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on February 2, 2006, the film was released in cinemas in the United States on February 10, 2006. Like the previous two installments, it was filmed in Vancouver, Canada. Casting began in March 2005 and concluded in April. From the beginning, Wong and Morgan saw control as a major theme in the film. The idea of featuring a roller coaster derailment as the opening-scene disaster came from New Line Cinema executive Richard Bryant. Unlike the second film, which was a direct sequel to the first, the producers envisioned Final Destination 3 as a stand-alone film. The film's development began shortly after the release of Final Destination 2 Jeffrey Reddick, creator of the franchise and a co-writer of the first two films, did not return for the third one. With survivor and friend Kevin Fischer (Merriman), Wendy tries to use this knowledge to save the rest of them and ruin Death's scheme. Wendy realizes photographs she took at the amusement park contain clues about her classmates' death. Although she saves some of them, Death begins hunting the survivors. Winstead plays Wendy Christensen, a high school graduate who has a premonition that a roller coaster she and her classmates are riding will derail. Final Destination 3 stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ryan Merriman, and takes place years after the first film. Wong and Glen Morgan, who worked on the franchise's first film, wrote the screenplay. A standalone sequel to Final Destination 2 (2003), it is the third installment in the Final Destination film series.
Final Destination 3 is a 2006 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wong.
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